| Portex polyethylene tube | Smiths Medical, Hythe, Kent, England CT21 6JL | Portex 800/100/500;2.0mm ID, 3.0 mmOD | to prepare capillary tubes for nasal probe |
| Electrode cream | Parker, Fairfield, NJ, USA | Redux cream | to build electrode bridges |
| Ag/AgCl electrodes | Biomedical, Clinton Township, MI, USA | JNS BNT131-1,0 | measuring and reference electrodes |
| amiloride hydrochloride | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | A7410 | to prepare perfusion solutions |
| forskolin | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | F6886 | to prepare perfusion solutions |
| Knick Portamess voltmeter | Elektronisch Meβgeräte, Berlin, Germany | Portavo 904 pH | to measure potential difference |
| Paraly SW 112 Software | Elektronisch Meβgeräte, Berlin, Germany | Paraly SW112 software | to capture potential difference data |
| midazolam | Mylan, Hoeilaart, Belgium | Dormicum 15mg/3ml | to serve as anaesthetic premedication |
| fentanyl | Janssen Cilag, Berchem, Belgium | Fentanyl-Janssen 0.05 mg/ml | to serve as anaesthetic medication |
| medetomidine | Orion Pharma, Espoo, Finland | Domitor 1 mg/ml | to serve as anaesthetic medication |
| droperidol | Janssen Cilag, Berchem, Belgium | Dehydrobenzperidol 2.5 mg/ml | to serve as anaesthetic medication |
| clonidine | Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany | Catapressan 0.15 mg/ml, | to serve as anaesthetic medication |
| refernce IV catheter | Becton Dickinson, Sandy, UT, USA | 24 GA x 0.75 IN, BD Insyte-W | to build electrode bridges |
| forceps | Fine science Tools, Heidelberg, Germany | Dumont #5, Fine science Tools | to place the nasal catheter |
| naloxone | Braun Medical, Brussels, Belgium | Narcan, 0.4 mg/ml | to serve as anaesthetic antagonist |
| atipamezole | Zoetis, Bloomberg, Belgium | Antisedan, 5 mg/ml | to serve as a medetomedine specific antidote |
| Heating pads | Harvard Apparatus, Holliston, MA, USA | 18,8x37,5 cm; 15,5x15,5 cm | to avoid hypothermia during and after the test |
| Peristaltic pump P1 | GE Life Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden | 18111091 | to perfuse solutions in the mouse nose |
| cyanoacrylate glue | Loctite, Henkel, Düsseldorf, Germany | super glue 3 | to glue together two capillary tubes for nasal probe |
| NaCl | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | RES0926S-A7 | Pharma-Grade, USP |
| CaCl2.2H2O | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | M7304 | Pharma-Grade, USP |
| MgCl2.6H2O | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | 1551128 | Pharma-Grade, USP |
| K2HPO4 | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | 1551139 | Pharma-Grade, USP |
| Na gluconate | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | S2054 | Pharma-Grade, USP |
| Ca gluconate | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | C8231 | Pharma-Grade, USP |
| MgSO4.7H2O | Sigma, St Louis, MI, USA | RES0089M-A7 | Pharma-Grade, USP |
| BD needle | Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, USA | BD 26G (0.45x10 mm) | intraperitoneal injection |